Can’t help thinking of skull-with-sunglasses Shaun talking about Harry Potter as neoliberal high fantasy, because the only proposed solution was changing who’s in charge. ‘It would be very bad if some asshole owned this magical land! Oh good, we stopped him, and some protagonist-coded dork owns it instead. I guess we’re safe forever.’
Can’t help thinking of skull-with-sunglasses Shaun talking about Harry Potter as neoliberal high fantasy, because the only proposed solution was changing who’s in charge. ‘It would be very bad if some asshole owned this magical land! Oh good, we stopped him, and some protagonist-coded dork owns it instead. I guess we’re safe forever.’
In Ready Player Two the protagonist dork fucks up the magical land without hesitation and has to save it again.